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De Jongh family residence, 2 Chatham Road [c.1900-c.1960]

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Thu, 2019-06-20 03:40

Date Place completed:

c.1900-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Date Place demolished:

c.1960-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Charles Gesner van der Voort's colleague Frans de Jongh started working in China much earlier than Charles, in 1919, in Shanghai, at Holland-China Trading Company. In 1930, Frans de Jongh and his wife moved to Hong Kong, and lived at 2 Chatham Road, where their daughter Anneke was born, in the same year. Later, they moved to Tianjin (Tientsin) and during WWII, they were interned by the Japanese in Weihsien camp. <Read more ...>